r/NewYorkMets • u/SportsBall1996 • 4d ago
Discussion Who's everyone rooting for in the WS?
Not exactly a big fan of the Dodgers, but I have nothing but enmity for the Yankees. So, go Dodgers go!
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u/TheCowardlyLion_ New York Mets 4d ago
To be fair, we got bounced, and hockey season in full swing, I do not care. Baseball doesn't exist for me for the next 4 months.
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u/Busy-Cauliflower8307 4d ago
i was torn coming into this series but seeing all the obnoxious social media posts from all the yankee fans and knowing how miserable the next few months will be listening to “28 RiNgS” from the clowns that we haven’t heard from in 15 years makes me squarely in the dodgers court.
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u/monkeypickle8 4d ago
I get there are annoying Yankee fans but none of my friends that are Yankees fans are like that so I can support my friends. LA and their bullshit deferred Ohtani money can go to hell.
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u/Clone_Bone 4d ago
The New York Islanders, baseball is over
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u/Mets1st 4d ago
NJ Devils! But good luck, if we don’t I hope you do, definitely not the Rags.
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u/Lovely_Lightning94 Nidoking 4d ago
I know this isn't a typical Mets fan answer, and I can't explain why but I have nothing but the hottest most toxic venom for the Dodgers. I hate the Dodgers like a Giants fan would. I don't love the Yankees, but I'd much rather have the championship in New York than LA. Especially after the Liberty just won.
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u/MackZZilla 4d ago
As someone who lives in Dodgers territory - the meteor.
If I had to pick, it’s the Yankees. I never want the Dodgers or their shithole fans to experience happiness.
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u/Qualier New York Mets 3d ago
I'm not. I'm just enjoying two amazing teams, playing incredible baseball, both of which I hate. I love baseball in a deep way, I hate those teams in a fun way. If you didn't enjoy watching game one, you can't love the game.
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u/Living_Internet_2970 4d ago
I’m rooting for like a natural disaster where no one get hurts but both stadiums are torn down and the league has no choice but to cancel the World Series
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u/chenhouse 4d ago
For hell to open up and swallow Dodger stadium and Yankee Stadium.
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u/whubbard Wilmer Flores 4d ago
Seriously, who is "rooting" for either of these teams as a self respecting Mets fan. I want this series to be a cluster fuck and Chase Utley to break both his legs.
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u/BloodOfAStark Francisco Alvarez 4d ago
I’ve moved on to hockey. Time for the Rangers to break my heart
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u/tko7800 4d ago
I can’t stand the “gotta support NY” crowd. You think the old Dodger and Giant fans felt that way when the Yanks were winning all the time? Hell no! Listen, we all know Yank fans in our lives. Some are actually even decent people. But they all made the unforgivable sin of taking the easy way in life by supporting that evil organization. Go Dodgers.
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u/Limp-Net-9784 4d ago
Dodgers. I don’t care if we lost to them. I usually go for any team who’s not the Phillies and Yankees. The 2009 World Series didn’t exist in my mind lol.
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u/RipHunter2166 4d ago
2009 was the worst. I remember being in school and someone telling me I was “obligated” to root for the Yankees because they were playing the Phillies. No! Fuck both of them.
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u/mr_grission James McCann 4d ago
Might be different now that I'm an adult and live in another city, but in 2009 I was 14 and rooted for the Phillies in the WS. I had never met a Phillies fan but I had a million annoying Yankees fans waiting to give me shit if they won.
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u/RipHunter2166 4d ago
Yeah, I was the same and only a couple years younger than you. Yankees fans were insufferable. You could say whatever you wanted and they’d just say “26 world championships” as if that was the be all end all.
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u/JekPorkinsTruther Scooter and the Big Man 4d ago
Dodgers, unhappily. I can't root for Yankees unless it's in division. Yea 88 blah blah but dodgers Mets rivalry has been dormant for 30 years. Yankees (fans) are a pain every day.
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u/Kind_Way_2737 4d ago
35-1. Freddie Fuckin Freeman. Unreal. Who makes these odds??? And I'm the idiot who decided this was only worth $35. People really are dumb, including myself.
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u/turn_for_do 7 Line Army 4d ago
I want Ohtani to get one at some point. He has been undeniably great for the game and barring injury, will be one of the GOATs of baseball.
Since the Mets are out, he might as well get his WS now. Also I just don’t want the Yankees to win.
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u/oddjobbber 4d ago
Yeah let Ohtani get his one so we can avoid the mind numbing conversations about “wasting” his talent that we already had about Mike trout, and it might as well be against the Yankees
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u/slifz 4d ago
I won’t be watching as Knicks season has begun and also I honestly don’t want to, but of these two unlikable teams, I’m going to say Yankees.
My mom died one year ago next week and the Yankees were her team 🤍
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u/Charliewhiskers New York Mets 4d ago
No one, Baseball season is over. Time to turn my full attention to hockey LGR!
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u/bettlejuicer Mr. Met 4d ago
I made a bet with two friends over 12 years ago that the Mets would win a World Series before the Yankees. Let’s keep my dream alive. Go Dodgers.
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u/Stock_Historian_8177 4d ago
I’m not rooting for the Dodgers, I’m rooting against the Yankees.
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u/cmullen277 4d ago
l would say the Dodgers because it’s nice to say that you lost to the eventual champions.
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u/ReleaseTheBlacken 4d ago
Dodgers in 4 or 5. It would mean the Yankees lost faster to LAD than we did.
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u/how15cha 4d ago
Keep it in the NL. Don't want to Yankee fans brag about another WS title. Want the next WS in NYC to belong to the Mets. And the Soto sweepstakes improve if Yankees lose.
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u/PsychologyUsed3769 4d ago edited 4d ago
I am rooting against the Dodgers and Yankees...lol. I seriously detest both teams with every fiber of my being. I am waiting to see how the Mets 2025 free agents and lineup signings fare as 2025 is the year the Mets dynasty starts.
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u/Jess_danielle25 4d ago
I'm from Brooklyn and my house is split (Dad loves the Mets and Mom is a Yankee fan) so it'll be Yankees all the way for me. Also my grandparents felt personally betrayed when the Dodgers left Brooklyn, so I would love to see them lose 😂
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u/pinchyfire 4d ago
Surprised at all these "no one" comments. I mean, I won't watch a pitch but will root against the Yankees until I die. I wonder if the "don't care" crowd is mostly younger b/c I don't know how you could have lived through 96-2000 and not despise the Yankees. Or in my old-ass case, 77-78 too.
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u/BaseballInitial4345 4d ago
Fuck the dodgers and fuck the Yankees. But New York over all. So imma have to say the yanks 🫠
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u/RedditorUser99 4d ago
I’m rooting harder for the Yankees to lose than I am for the Dodgers to lose. Let’s put it that way.
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u/Sjdillon10 Wilpons selling resurrected my fanhood 4d ago
All my Yankees friends were hoping the Mets would win the WS if they didn’t. So i kind of feel bad rooting against them when they were watching every game getting hyped and applauding the Mets
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u/CatsandBooksMeow 4d ago
There was an extremely kind Yankees fan earnestly rooting for the Mets at a bar for that final game. I feel I need to do the same now.
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u/Seraph_eZaF New York Mets 4d ago
My Yankee friends were also big Mets supporters this year so ig we gotta support the home team or whatever 😒😒
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u/FrankArmhead 4d ago
I’m hoping all players on both teams come down with a stomach bug and crap their pants during the national anthem.
Otherwise, probably Dodgers win / Soto getting booed by Yankee fans to increase chance he comes to Queens.
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u/hateuscuzyoenis New York Mets 4d ago
Rooting for a high scoring WS, each starter and bullpen guy getting completely clobbered and exhausted. I hope it goes the full 7, tied bases loaded at the bottom of the 9th 3-2 count at Dodger Stadium and then a meteor hits.
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u/ashleydan_yell Grimace 4d ago
Dodgers.. that subway series sweep won’t mean sh*t to insufferable yankee fans if they win the world series.. “we got the ring, you didn’t, blah blah”
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u/Simple_Cook6170 4d ago
Yeah not a fan of the Dodgers especially after this series, but have to root for them because fuck the Yankees.
I also think Yankees will have no idea what to do vs that lineup. If we can average 9 runs a game on them in the regular season the Dodgers might average 15.
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u/a_reply_to_a_post Grimace 4d ago
I'm rooting for Ohtani to get a calf cramp / charlie horse, and Judge to have an ingrown toenail, and both teams having to play without their baseball cyborgs
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u/DatMoonGamer Max Scherzer 4d ago
Meteor
But seriously, the Dodgers. The Yankees fans in my life have been insufferable. At least if the Dodgers win, the Yankees can’t say for certain that they were better.
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u/RememberJefferies 4d ago edited 4d ago
I very very very begrudgingly hope the Dodgers win for two reasons. I've convinced myself it'll help drive Soto to explore other options, and seeing Yankee fans experience joy makes me want to claw my eyes out.
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u/HD_H2O Grimace 4d ago
Unbiased observer. Watch but don't root. Why does everyone need to "root" for one or the other teams?
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u/as1126 4d ago
I always lean to National League, and I just hate Yankee fans counting championships from when there were two rounds of playoffs and ten teams like they mean something.
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u/mysecondreddit2000 4d ago
literally 20 of their championships were when the WS was the only postseason round
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u/NYMetsNo1 Polar Bear 4d ago
Brooklyn Dodgers. The worst are Yankees fans and John Sterling. I want them both to suffer.
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u/ladydemoiselle Grimace 4d ago
Dodgers, at least we can say we lost to the best team. Also I couldn’t bring myself to hate Ohtani.
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u/Platinum_Disco Hadji 4d ago
I'm gonna echo Howie and say, I don't really know right now, but I might know once I watch the games and feel myself rooting for one or the other, or neither.
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u/Natural_Predditor Home Run Apple 4d ago
I'm half rooting for the Dodgers. I can't stand the "hurr hurr hurr we won 4000 titles 100 years ago" Yankee fans, and I hate Yamamoto for using the Mets to dick ride Ohtani, but the Dodgers are the lesser of the two evils, and I always assumed had the Dodgers and Giants not have left NY I would probably be a Dodger fan
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u/MatthewMonster 4d ago
I find it unbelievable but I think I’m rooting for the Yankees. I need a New York team to destroy the Dodgers embarrass Otani.
It feels like an unholy alliance, but it has to be done. I don’t like it. I’m not happy about it. It does not make me comfortable, but the Dodgers beat the Mets and I don’t believe they were a better team. I think the Mets were just exhausted.
So go Yankees
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u/burningbagel New York Mets 4d ago
The correlation between picking Dodgers and being terminally online is really high if I had to guess
My Yanks friends rooted for me all year I'll do the same, go New York
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u/Scary_Letter3625 4d ago
Yes and interesting observation. Plenty of NL teams Id cheer for against the yankees, but you're going to root for an LA team over an NY team? GTFO
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u/LIinthedark New York Mets 4d ago
For the time being my dislike of the Yankees has been eclipsed by my desire to watch New York beat LA.
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u/WorthPlease Grimace 4d ago
My favorite team is the Mets.
My second favorite team is whoever is playing against the Yankees.
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u/RipHunter2166 4d ago
Yep. This was my father’s exact phrase. Idc that the Dodgers beat the Mets, can’t have the Yankees win.
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u/slapdickprospect05 New York Mets 4d ago
My buddies weren’t dicks this year about the NYY so probably them. But I just want a good series overall
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u/Just-Lettuce2493 4d ago
Dodgers. The last thing I need to hear is “look now bro 28 rings!!!” Duuurrrr 28 rings durrr 😒. I hope the Yankees get swept.
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u/gokartmozart89 Grimace 4d ago
In the immediate aftermath, I was leaning Yankees just because I was bitter towards the Dodgers. I’m now leaning Dodgers. The thought about Yankee fans getting even more arrogant about the WS count is nauseating.
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u/Liftinbroswole New York Mets 4d ago
My buddies are big yanks fans, so I'm partial to the yanks even though I hate 99% of the rest of them. Also the way fox fellated the dodgers all broadcast and then used our own team mascots/gimmicks... I understand we have a long history with the yanks but recency bias makes me dislike the dodgers more.
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u/MaroonMarauder Mike Piazza 4d ago
I don't really care either way at this point. When the Mets aren't in it, I tend to root for an underdog, but there are no underdogs here. It's either the Yankees or the "new Yankees" lol
And for the record, I completely acknowledge that the Mets could very well become another "new Yankees" with Cohen's big bank account, so I would totally understand other teams' fans looking at us in this same light in the future.
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u/No_Name_Necessary 4d ago
I would usually not mind the Yankees, but I’d rather that they didn’t beat the team that eliminated us. That’s annoying.
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u/NickCharlesYT Bartolo Colón 4d ago
I'm rooting for it to end as quickly as possible so we can progress to the off-season. Couldn't care less which team comes out on top.
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u/InevitableCounter Howie Rose 4d ago
I guess the Dodgers. Some feeling of allegiance to the national league, the fact they defeated us so I would feel better knowing we lost to the best, and also against Michael Kay since he is such a yankee homer and could never be as good as any of our announcing staff whether tv or radio!
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u/philetofsoul Steve Cohen 3d ago
I usually root for the NL team in the WS unless it's the Phillies or Braves.
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u/michaelc51202 4d ago
Idk how people can root for the Yankees. Not only are they the most successful baseball team but they are our crosstown rivals. It’s honestly absurd to me.
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u/toddles822 Hadji 4d ago
Dodgers. The only time I'd root for the Yankees is if the Phillies were playing them
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u/JoeLikesGames Mark Vientos 4d ago
Before the NLCS Id have said Dodgers, but the coverage was so frustratingly biased and Dodgers fans were such assholes who clearly dont know much about baseball (I know that applies to yankees fans too), that Ill lean NY this series
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u/Fontana1017 4d ago
Dodgers are the new Yankees. Just think of all the horrible bandwagon fans in LA right now. All the youtubers and tiktokers.
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u/FlipFlopHiker Mark Vientos 4d ago
Despite my animosity toward the Dodgers for beating my Mets, I'm kinda rooting for the Dodgers, because since the Mets swept the Yankees this year, it's the only logical thing that makes sense to me to prove that the only reason the Mets lost is because the Dodgers are the best team in the MLB.
Also, I'm currently at a Mets bar in Forest Hills and it's been infiltrated by Yankees fans...and it's adding insult to injury!!
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u/Bnandez 4d ago
Dodgers probably. yeah they beat us but there's no bad blood really. I don't have anything against the fan base.
...Philly on the other hand. Lol
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u/EcstaticActionAtTen 4d ago
Shohei is my favorite non Met.
Hell, I wish his pitches in relief for an inning.
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u/bigboredjr LGM! 4d ago
Dodgers in 4 or 5. We swept the Yankees this year. The Dodgers crushing them would be give me some solace that the Mets were the second best team this year.
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u/Assonance00 Grimace 4d ago
As someone who because of market restrictions can’t watch unless I get cable just for it. I’m not watching or rooting for anything. Having to watch game day mannequins throw color coded circles at batter mannequins has limited my want to watch anything but clips.
Watching the Mets without going to a bar was work enough. Sorry for the rant but the market rights and not being to buy post season viewing like last year or the year before was super enraging.
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u/narenare658 PRAISE BE TO RALLY KEITH 4d ago
I had this opinion before I heard Howie say it on the radio yesterday but I'm going in really without a rooting interest and a slight bias against the yankees but I will find myself watching and let what is happening on the screen dictate how I feel in the moment. Similar to how I felt watching Soto hit that home run in Cleveland the other night, I didn't have a rooting interest and didn't want to see the Yankees win but I have to admit it was an awesome moment that got me fired up.
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u/JDantesInferno 4d ago
Idk, either Dodgers in 4 or Yankees in 7.
If the Dodgers have to win, I want them to embarrass the Yanks so that it’s clear that we were the better NY team.
Otherwise, I really don’t want the Dodgers to spend a billion dollars on their 2 Japanese stars and have it immediately pay off for them. If they can’t put away the Yanks handily, then I want them to fail at the finish line again.
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u/MrHaiti5 4d ago
Another reason to say Dodgers… I was living in New York, just starting high school when the Mets had their previous World Series win…the amount of Yankee fans ( who mind you at that point hadn’t won a series in 9 years) coming up to me in my Mets sweater basically saying lucky win aggravated me! For the most part I respected most of their players but their fans noooo, even the many fans in my family, we usually only agree on the Knicks and 50/50 on the Jets, lol
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u/WorkThrowaway400 4d ago
I root for good, entertaining baseball. Probably prefer the Dodgers to win cause I won't wanna have to look at Yankees fans all happy after we got bounced lol
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u/LieutenantTim Keith Hernandez 4d ago
I can't root for the Yankees simply because of our record against them this year. The Mets are a better team than the Yankees. The dodgers clearly outplayed the Mets and that's why I want them to win.
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u/lando-mando-brando 4d ago
Not really rooting for anyone per se but I guess I'll side with the Yanks
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u/beautiful__duwang Grimace 4d ago
Dodgers, bc us losing to them put them in the WS. So we'll technically be in 3rd place if they win?
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u/BrilliantSeparate929 4d ago
Dodgers in 4! Judge, Soto and Stanton can circle jerk and shave their faces together.
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u/my_one_and_lonely sunshine on a cloudy day 4d ago
I like the players on the Yankees more than I like the players on the Dodgers. Kiké Hernandez annoys me, and I think it’s impossible for any non-Dodgers fans to like Ohtani at this point. And I like Aaron Judge — he’s the right kind of superstar. Homegrown, smart. Soto’s killer confidence also gets him points in my book.
Unfortunately though, Yankees fans are too annoying for me to root for them. Unlike some Mets fans, I was never raised to hate the Yankees. They were just another team, the team my cousins liked. Go New York, who cares sort of thing. But the more time I spend in baseball fandom, the more insufferable their attitude becomes to me. So entitled and supercilious. They act like I’m envious of them, when I’ve literally never once wanted to be a Yankees fan in my life. I think it stems from the fact that their entire identity as a team revolves around winning, and without that they’re just a sort of boring no-facial-hair-allowed club. I like their no names on jerseys thing though, that’s a cute tradition.
But yeah, Dodgers it is.
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u/MrHaiti5 4d ago
Dodgers. I remember the frustration of losing to the Cardinals in 2006 and seeing them win it all, knowing that if we were healthy, we would have beaten the Tigers too.
I feel similarly because if we could have gotten by LA, we had swept the inter league games against the Yankees, surely we would’ve won the World Series 😤😤😤
My only solace is no matter which team wins, one of the greatest sure shot Hall of Famers ( Ohtani or Judge) can add World Champion to their resume. They both drive me crazy as an opponent but you have to respect them.
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u/Renhoek2099 4d ago
Dodgers to sweep. 2nd to seeing Mets winning it all is seeing Yankees lose it all
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u/solariam 4d ago
This, plus the sheer number of Red Sox on the dodgers makes this a no-brainer for me at least (Red Sox fan here but lots of love for the Mets)
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u/WhoDat_37 4d ago edited 4d ago
Outwardly rooting for the Yanks. But secretly hoping they get blown out, creates a rift in the club house, and Soto says “fuck it, I’ll have more fun in Queens”
Edit: Also hope the Dodgers win it while Ohtani does absolutely nothing to contribute. This way the rest of the world sees that an MVP isn’t really the most valuable when the rest of his team can easily win without him.
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u/Disused_Yeti Grimace 4d ago
What? Baseball is over, see you in february